The book is out!
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40+ Contributing Authors including yours truly.
97 Useful Axioms for anyone with the slightest inclination for building sustainable systems.
2 Fellow Practitioners I admire: Gregor Hohpe & Bill de hÓra
1 Open Source Creative Commons License
1 Great Editor in Richard Monson-Haefel
It’s been a great team to be a part of. I am happy that my submission was chosen to be a part of the book. Having written two other books, I can safely say that no. 3 has been the most painless experience of the lot. I can appreciate the concept of a community driven book that’s rapidly formulated, well edited and published rapidly.
More importantly, the license allows others to extend and evolve the concept even further should they wish to. Lastly, the book should eventually get translated to German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian & Spanish through O’Reilly’s global distribution network.
The book is no.1 for Software & Architecture on Amazon now:
#1 in Books > Computers & Internet > Hardware > Design & Architecture
and more significantly:
#5 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Software Development
You can buy the book here:
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Software-Architect-Should/dp/059652269X
And you can also get the content here if you wish to run through the wiki:
http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book
John Davies was kind enough to get it plugged for us on TheServerSide.com!!!
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53819
Cheers,
Zubin.